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Environmental Science

How Emerging Contaminants Like Pharmaceuticals Bioaccumulate in Aquatic Food Chains

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Diclofenac, a common anti-inflammatory drug, can bioaccumulate in fish up to 500 times the concentration found in the surrounding water, and levels can increase by up to 10 times at each step of the food chain.

Why this is interesting

You take a painkiller and flush it down the drain—where does it go? And how could a drop of medicine in a lake end up concentrated in the fish on your plate?